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BOOT AND SHOE SOLE. l

NO. 289,646'. -Y PatentedDeO. 4, 1883.

VUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PERLEY GREEN AND EDWARD P. DUNCKLEE, OF STONEHAM, MASSACHU- SETTS, ASSIGNORS TO SAID DUNCKLEE, TRUSTEE.

BOOT AND SHOE SOLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,646, dated December 4, 1883,

Application tiled March 3, 1883. (No model.)

ing is a specication.

This invention has for its object to enable a strong, durable, and substantial soleto be made from scraps or small pieces of leather; and it consists in the improvements which we; will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a A part of this specification, Figure l represents together.

a plan View of a sole constructed in accordance with our invention. Figs. 2 and 3 represent end views, showing different forms of lap-joint. Fig. 4 represents a plan view of one of the parts of the solef Fig. 5 represents' aplan of the sole, showing abindingsheet applied to the parts thereof. Fig. 6 represents a section on line x x, Fig. 5. Fig. 7 represents a section of a portion of a boot or shoe having a sole embodying our improvements, either whollyor in part.v

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In carrying out our invention, we construct a sole from two leather side or marginal pieces, a a., and one or more central pieces, b. The marginal pieces a a form the entire margin of the sole, and are scarfed or beveled, and overlapped at their adjacent ends, to form a lap joint or joints, c, at the toe,-Figs. 2 and 3. Said ends may be beveled alike, as shown in Fig. 2, or one may be tongued and the other grooved, as shown in Fig. 3. The overlapping ends are suitably glued or cemented The central piece, b, is fitted to the space between the marginal pieces a a.y All of said pieces are comparatively narrow, and can therefore be cut out of scraps or waste pieces of stock. We prefer to glue or cement to one or both sides of the sole thus formed a binding sheet or sheets, e, of water-proof pa` per or other suitable thin iiexible material," 'which serves to firmly imite thepieces a a, and Z, and also `to prevent oil or moisture from 'the burnishing-tool- We are aware that asole has been made in separate pieces, one being of such length as to extend continuously around the sole and form the entire margin thereof and the others being partially surrounded by said marginal piece. Said construction requires a longer single piece of leather than either of our pieces, and is therefore less economical than our construction.

We do not limit ourselves to the use of the lap-joint in all cases when the binding-sheets e e are employed, as the edges of the pieces may abut against each other without being overlapped, the binding-sheets holding the pieces in contact. Better results are produced, however, by the lap-joint.

Ve are aware that it is not new to make composite soles of several pieces of leather. We claim only the construction shown and described, by which we are enabled to produce a good composite sole at small cost.

Ve claim- As an improved article of manufacture, a sole composed of two side marginal pieces of leather united at the front by a lap-j oint andl diverging toward the rear, a triangular fillingpiece, as I), placed between said marginal pieces, as shown, and covering-sheets e e of flexible material, cemented to the top and bottom surfaces of said sole, all substantially as stated.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names'to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 28th day of February, 1883.

PERLEY GREEN. EDWARD I. DUN GKLEE.

Vitnesses:

C. F. BROWN, A. L. WHITE. 

